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SIX WORDS
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Life
One life. Six words. What’s yours?™
Love
Share six words on love & heartbreak.
Planet
Share your six words for the planet.
Teens
One life. Six words. What’s yours?
Jewish
What’s the essence of your own or others’ Jewish life in six words?
Questions
Ask a question in exactly six words.
Happiness
Share your six words on the secrets to happiness.
Resolutions
Hopes, dreams, motivations, and mistakes to avoid in the coming year.
Work
What inspires my very best work
Moms
What can you say about motherhood in six words?
Dads
Share six words about your dad, or about being a dad.
Food
Share six words on food—from memorable meals to locavore living.
America
Share six words that inspire you about America.
Digital Life
Share six words on your digital life.
TWLOHA
Share your six words on pain and hope.
War
Share six words on coming home from war.
STORY PROJECTS
Here are all of our longer group story projects.
Reader Projects
The Moment
An instant when your life changed
My Life So Far
Your personal essays and memoirs-in-progress
Freeze Frame
Everyone has a fridge story. What’s yours? Take a snapshot—a freezeframe—of your fridge and tell…
Brushes with Fame
Your stories of an encounter with a celebrity who unexpectedly enters your world
Pregnancy
Do you have an amazing, unusual, or simply memorable pregnancy story?
My Ex
Everyone has an ex. Spill your guts, search your soul, and submit your story.
Editors’ Blogs
Editors’ Blog
A chicken’s-eye view of the world and personal media, plus news about all things SMITH.
Memoirville
Our blog about new memoirs, with interviews and excerpts.
Book News
News, press, tour info and more about SMITH’s books
COMICS
We do like our comics.
A.D.: News Orleans After the Deluge
The true story about six different people who survive Hurricane Katrina. Now an expanded book from Pantheon.
The Pekar Project
American Splendor creator Harvey Pekar has teamed with four terrific artists for his first ongoing webcomics series.
Next-Door Neighbor
True neighborhood tales by today's leading comics artists and writers.
Graphic Therapy
The illustrated diary of a single Jewish artist making her own way through life, work, and psychoanalysis.
Shooting War
A fictionalized story set in 2011 on the future of citizen journalism, media, and the war on terror. Available as a Grand Central graphic novel.
My Home Birth
A true story about having a baby Christen Clifford & David Heatley
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BOOKS
Our bestselling Six-Word Memoir® books, graphic novels, and more.
THE SIX-WORD GAME
Our witty, wordy, fast, fun game for of all ages.
CALENDAR
A new six-worder each day—and spot to write your own.
T-SHIRTS
Make your own Six-Word tee or choose among our favorites.
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